Jazz Fest 2015: Music and art came together at the NOCCA Pavilion

this is a discussion within the NOLA Community Forum; While visual arts, food and musical performances were spread across the Fairgrounds over the seven days of Jazz Fest, they came together in the Cultural Exchange Pavilion each day, where New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) student artists and ...

While visual arts, food and musical performances were spread across the Fairgrounds over the seven days of Jazz Fest, they came together in the Cultural Exchange Pavilion each day, where New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) student artists and alumni performed and demonstrated their work.*

Brandan "Bmike" Odums, the NOCCA alum responsible for the explosive graffiti project ExhibitBe in Algiers last fall, designed the *backdrop for the stage in the pavilion, which changes each year to reflect a different culture. This year the pavilion was dedicated to NOCCA, and a photographic retrospective detailed the years-long relationship that's formed between the school and the festival.*